#Johnny Horton

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cowboyposting again

All paintings by Glenn Dean | Goodbye Love - Car Seat Headrest | Spooky - Dusty Springfield | Trees and Flowers - Strawberry Switchblade | Cemetry Gates - The Smiths | Somewhere - The Danse Society | Sunburned Shirts - Car Seat Headrest | North to Alaska - Johnny Horton | Coffee and TV - Blur | Mister Church - Cottonwood Firing Squad

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Today in 2000 I got to see John Linnell and the Statesmen open for They Might Be Giants at New York City's Bowery Ballroom. One of the States Songs performed was a cover of Johnny Horton's "North to Alaska". Also, turtleneck 🙌

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Year-End Poll #10: 1959

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Welcome to the year of pining for love and killing people.

I'm kidding. This is the first year-end chart after the implementation of the Hot 100, resulting in a larger pool of music to pull from. It's interesting how the presence of rock and roll doesn't feel as strong as it's been in previous years. Dick Clark, a radio and television personality at the time (who will definitely come up in future entries) advised Bobby Darin not to release Mack the Knife because he worried a traditional pop/jazz track wouldn't work in a post-rock and roll musical landscape. Mack the Knife ended up winning Record of the Year at the second ever Grammy Awards and the first to be televised.

I bring this up, not to spend too much time focusing on a single song, but to show the various ways the music scene has changed in the mainstream. With both the Hot 100 and the Grammy Awards, we're seeing a shift in how music is being talked about and consumed. However, looking at the origins of the Grammy Awards makes the absence of rock and roll on the charts feel rather eerie, especially after the numerous blatant examples of racial bias centering the awards. Even with all of the marketable white faces, rock and roll is still a Black genre. To many people in the industry, rock and roll wasn't a fad -- it was a threat. I found one quote claiming that in 1957 [the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences] "didn't want to slave to the enthusiasm of teenage girls". I was not able to confirm the source of the quote, but its sentiment can still be felt to this day. Rock and roll was considered juvenile, loud, sexual, dangerous, and Black. It was everything white America was afraid of and something the National Academy had in mind when creating the thesis behind the Grammy Awards.

Did this effort to shield the musical landscapes from the shifting tides pay off? Will the "enthusiasm of teenage girls" never touch the charts again?

I'll see you all in the 1960s.

[comicwaren]

From Avengers Inc. #001, “The Man Who Wasn’t There”

Art by Leonard Kirk and Alex Sinclair

Written by Al Ewing

[rockincountryblues]

Johnny Horton, Jesse Sparks, Tommy Tomlinson, on stage at Louisiana Hayride, Shreveport, Municipal Auditorium, probably 1957

[janeway-lover]

i have no idea why but when i had an mp3 player as a kid, my dad was the one who put the songs on there, and a few of the songs were by Johnny Horton.

Sink the Bismark, The Battle of New Orleans, and The Battle of Bull Run.

so i'm relistening to them and y'all should too they're good songs but i have no idea why my dad was like "hmmm what do 8 year olds like to listen to? how about songs from the 50s about war!"

[nitpickrider]

Seeing Griffin barreling out you all hell and fury is one of those moments where "Holy shit!" Really is the only logical reaction.

[tipsywench]

I have Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" on my random liked songs on spotify (hey it's a really good 1950s history song) so when I shuffle my playlist it'll randomly pop up

and every time it gets to the part about powdering an alligator's ass and using it as a cannon I'm always surprised like I somehow forgot that little bit was in the song

[ifelllikeastar]

Johnny Horton and Johnny Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas.

[undine66770]

I figured I’d post all the CDs I have! It’s a tiny collection right now with (maybe) small variety, but I’m pleased with it.  Starset: Vessels Starset: Horizons Starset: Divisions Paul Anka: Sessions Buddy Holly The Definitive Collection The Essential Jim Reeves  The Essential Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble Honky Tonk Man: The Essential Johnny Horton 1956-1960

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

Side Character (Cloud Fodder)

I'm just the side character in your main plotline/Always pay the check and pick up your hotline/You were nicer to me/When you barely knew me/But you won't wake up to that til I'm gone

"I correlate it strongly to c!jack manifold and his feelings of abandonment and being pushed aside constantly. he is such a side character that he literally died of screen. I project onto him so much I just want him to be loved but he never is."

North to Alaska (Johnny Horton)

Where the river is windin', big nuggets they're findin'/North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on

"It’s a story song and I love those, but also depending on how I’m listening the “go north the rush is on” part”sounds more like “go north to Russia's home” and it gets me every time because the us bought Alaska from Russia and for a while we thought it was useless but nope! It’s not!"

Side Character submitted by @figurativelystupid

[sosalist]

just two bros hangin out

[bobdylan-n-jonimitchell]

Johnny Cash “Girl in Saskatoon” recorded November 26, 1960—Bootleg Vol. II: From Memphis To Hollywood, February 18, 2011.

“You know I was in Saskatoon first time, I guess ten or eleven years ago with Johnny Horton and the show there—I wrote a song about Saskatoon...”

“It was called “The Girl from Saskatoon” I remember that one, yeah”

“Were you at the show?”

“Yes I was—A friend of mine, Roseanne was chosen ‘The Girl from Saskatoon’”

“Oh nice”—Johnny & Joni bantering on The Johnny Cash Show, 1969.

[mudwerks]

(via North to Alaska • Theme Song • Johnny Horton (1960)

Why the video exists? no idea, but the audio is decent.